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Bought this over 15 years ago when I made guitar effect pedals, as I wasn't doing mass production, and I despaired for the quality of PCBs I was getting from other places. I also made a bit of pin-money doing one-off PCBs and test runs for other people at £40 an hour... With the Kavo spindle...

Morning all. I have a lovely Excalibur EX-30 scrollsaw - the Axminster one. I've used it just as another general tool, if that makes sense, but I feel I would probably enjoy some proper scrollsawing. I don't generally like videos for tuition; could anyone suggest a good book or text-and-photos...

Hello all - just wondering why these don't seem popular. Is it that the box joint is a simple, functional thing rather than being seen as a bit of craftspersonship/artistry, so the additional effort in doing them half-blind isn't worth it? Mostly asking as I am making friends with my Incra...

Arfernoon all - thought this might be helpful for anyone else who wishes to escape the tyranny of Imperial T-Track and use good, honest, scientific metric fixings. I hope this is helpful, and interested to hear of any other solutions people have found that avoid buying weird Imperial stuff. On...

I've noticed a fair few comments (including from the grumpy sod who is my step-father-in-law) that anyone with a clean and tidy workshop can't be making anything. I find this an odd attitude; I'm just a hobbyist, not doing it for a living, so I don't have a lot of time to spend making stuff. I...

Hallo all. In my never-ending quest to make a different thing every time I make a thing, I am now embarking on my first ever bit of faux-taxidermy. It will require a display case; I have pre-cut 5mm acrylic panels to form the sides and some ply for a base (along with a soft toy owl, soft toy...

Afternoon all - wasn't quite sure where to put this but aluminium is certainly metal... I'm building some slightly industrial-looking (ie scruffy) workshop drawers, and taking the opportunity to use up the last of the Duropal from my previous house's kitchen. For anyone fortunate enough not to...

Hello! I was wondering if there are any pen makers here who'd be willing to take on a mechanical pencil job for money. I could offer some sort of wooden box in exchange if you're a fan of the naïve/untalented school of making wooden boxes. Basically I need something that takes a 0.5mm lead, and...

Morning all - I'm adding a door to my router table. It'll be a bit of Duropal, backed if necessary with some ply to add thickness (the Duropal is I think 10mm). I have two Blum thin door hinges - specifically these 'uns: https://www.trade-hinges.co.uk/soft-close-thin-door-hinge-2569-p.asp The...

Be forewarned that thus isn't going to be another fawning Incra-worship thread, and my recommendation is not to buy one of these combos - they are vastly overpriced and under-engineered. Buy the positioner, if you want the joinery stuff (and can afford to add all the other things you need to...

Hello! This is mostly cribbed from a build thread I did a few years and two workshops ago for the build section of a guitar forum, so it was written for a rather different audience and consequently there's probably all sorts of information missing. Feel free to ask. There's also nothing in here...

Afternoon all - these threads seem to be popular, so I thought I'd add mine. The big caveat up front is that I did darned close to none of the work myself - we bought a new house and were having it refurbished (stripped out to floor joists, an extension, internal rearrangement and so on), so I...

You may be detecting a theme in my for sale threads. I'm clearing out a load of stuff I thought I'd use but never did, in favour of a very few things that I actually will. This is approx 10 years old and never turned on - it sat unloved in a corner of the last workshop as I realised I'd rather...

Unused in a slightly scruffy box. Slight corrosion to one thumbwheel but everything else is clean and as-new. No instructions - I seem to recall they didn't come with them. Hard to find prices for these to compare, but I think £41 isn't unreasonable, collected from East Hampshire or plus...

Bought with grand expectations of my own ambition, which turned out to be unfounded. Unused in box, and complete. £60 collected from East Hampshire, or plus postage at cost.

This is the pre-UKJ version, which means it's a lovely shade of blue, and doesn't have the height lock. The dimensions seem to be identical though. I've not had any issues with it changing position so I'm not sure the lock is terribly important. Includes a predrilled "universal" plate and the...

Morning all; apologies for another thread on a well-discussed subject, but I'm getting nowhere trying to make a decision. Mostly I make boxes. I use a little Bosch tablesaw, mitre guillotine, bandsaw and suchlike. There are things I think I could do better or more safely with a router table -...

Hello all - had this about eight years I think. Bought it with ideas of making furniture, but it turns out I like making small things so I've gone back to a Bosch site saw. This is a very capable machine though, sliding table and a carriage assembly, plus a home-made router table that goes on...

Hello all - been away a while, including moving house and having a new workshop built. I'm easing back into making stuff, starting (mostly) with boxes. These are the start of my trying to remember how to do it, so a long way from perfect, but I'm quite pleased with both nevertheless. This was...

A recent post reminded me of the one thing we have to thank GWB Jnr for - the invention of the word "misunderestimate". I also like "automagically", to describe any particularly useful and unexpected automatic behaviour.